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the biggest interview of his life. damon weaver is here to tell bus his one-on-one with president obama. >> and what women want, in the workplace. >> oh. >> we'll tell you about a surprising new study about females and their boss. get your hands off me. >> stop touching. >> or please do. >> if you're watching "fox & friends." >> oops. >> good morning, fox foxx. good morning, "fox & friends." good morning, "fox & friends." >> the call center is open. >> hi, good morning. >> careful of the voice mail though. >> hi, everybody, look who is back again filling in for dave briggs. >> i can't believe they will the me back in. and where is dave again? >> he's on a fabulous vacation, that's all you need to know. >> oh, send your mail here though, somewhere in the caribbean. >> in the meantime coming up on the show, we have an incredible show for you. number one, we have an update for you we told you last week

that so many people responded to, about a young boy who was abducted from his father's custody by his mom, taken to italy. he was taken away from his mom and that little boy is today in an italian orphanage and his american father is desperate to get him back. the dad will be here to update us on what's happening. >> you said the orphanage itself is now closed. >> that's the update he's going to tell us about. >> where is the child? >> we don't know. >> and how heart breaking. >> also this morning we're talking about president obama taking his message on health care reform to a meeting in colorado. another town hall. he left montana, then went to grand junction, colorado and doing something his critics said he need today do to try to help to sell health care more effectively, trying to invoke passion and make this about him and this is exactly what he did yesterday. taste a listen. >> i just lost my grandmother

last year, i know what it's like to watch somebody you love who is aging deteriorate and have to struggle with that. the notion that somehow i ran for public office or members of congress are in this so that they can go around pulling the plug on grandma? i mean, when you start making arguments like that, that's simply dishonest. >> of course, there, that's all reference to the end of life counsel, which became so controversial, they took it from the bill. i think it's effective, i think it's effective when the president reminds people that he watched his loved one die and so many of us have. >> yes, his grandmother 86 years old. died two days before the election, died of cancer on

november the 2nd, but it did bring up the death panel issue again. but said end of life provisions he they still exist in at least a couple of the bills. >> the house bills, right. so, it's certainly still an issue on the table and with the audience thing, i think it's important to remind people how excruciating it is, how much that counseling can help. the question of course, should that be just the kind of patients and the doctor or should the government be involved in that. >> should medicare pay for it? >> and of course, the politics, the spin on both sides of this. either way you slice it there's spin on both sides, excuse me when sarah palin came out and a lot of republicans distanced th themselves from the death panel and even the wall street journal put out. and let's be fair and balanced here, this provision was put in by a republican, johnnie isaacson, chuck grassley responded to what the president said yesterday,

adding another point to whether the issue. >> the issue is should the end of life provision should be part of legislation and that's about controlling health care spending and which also creates a government run health care program as the pelosi bill does. and rationing of health care since government run plans in other countries ration to control spending and you're talking at the same time controlling spending, people tend to think you might be steered in a direction that would be cost effective, but perhaps not in your best interest. >> and another town hall meeting, alisyn and clayton, grand junction, colorado. we're looking for testier people, i am. i like that, actually, president obama and we concentrate on that sometimes. we did find a student from university of colorado, zack lane, it's not a testy question, but he was pressing the president. >> how in the world can a

private corporation providing insurance compete with an entity that does not have to worry about making profit. doesn't have to pay local property taxes, they do not have to-- for regulations, how can they deal with that? >> i think there are ways we can address the competitive issues. you're absolutely right, if they're not entirely impressed then that raises a set of legitimate problems. but the only point i wanted to make was that the notion that somehow just by having a public option, you have the entire private marketplace destroyed is just not born out by the facts. >> so the president trying to address the facts there this morning. we're coming up in a little bit and the president has written an op-ed piece, i don't know how he did it, he's out there in colorado. >> he has a laptop. >> and a ditto machine, too. popped this think out.

why we need health care reform in the new york times, the president's op-ed piece coming up. >> in the meantime we need to talk about the story many of you have been following closely, that is that the white house sent out e-mails to people who did not solicit them and never provided their names to the white house. how did the white house get these e-mail addresses of people to send out, from david axlerod a senior advisor about health care. many people, hundreds in fact, written in to fox saying i received the e-mails, i never signed up to get e-mails from the white house, never put my name on the list. what is that list all about? >> this has become known as the get scared issue. let's take the reporter out of it. let's talk about what robert gibbs said. i know you watched this on fox news channel and other channels as well and here is a reminder what happened in the press room. >> if you can check them on a list, aim just asking. >> you're asking me if they're

on a list, checking without asking me to double-check the names, i'll be happy to-- >> they're telling me it's not on a list because they never asked for any e-mails. >> so let's get the update on this. >> one of the updates is that fox now filed a freedom of information request with the white house to say is there a list? whose names are on it, to try to get to the bottom of it. how does this work? how could the white house have gotten e-mail addresses and technically speaking. >> it's so easy. i mean, mike brought up a great point. wish i could stop getting e-mails from things i don't want that i never ask for. >> we don't want to go into what some of them probably are, victoria secret's catalog. >> exactly. >> i never ordered. >> real estate, real estate stuff, on and on and object, t you can buy an e-mail address, anytime you affix your name to any list, most of us never check terms of service and people can buy the lists.

i go online and buy a list of like 30,000 names that you have no control over because you've signed up. >> i'm sitting at my computer and all of a sudden, an e-mail from the white house, the obama administration or any administration, i didn't ask for it. is that legal to send that e-mail to me, judge jean farrell is coming on and she will have the answer. >> it worries people on the heels of the white house asking them to forward e-mails, anything that people thought was fishy about health care reform and now this. some people are getting unsolicited e-mails, they wonder if there's a connection. >> and if you're listening, stop sending them to me. >> in the meantime, tell you your headlines at this hour, we start with a fox news alert. new video into our news room of the americans released from a myanmar prison. john yettaw arrived in thailand along with senator jim webb there, as they begin

their journey home. he was released with webb's help. he was accused of breaching burma's security laws, he swam to the the home of a democracy lead leader. and yettaw is from missouri suffers from diabetes, epilepsy and believed to have a mental illness. with jim doyle expect today announce he will not seek a third term. the move means the wisconsin governor's race is now wide open. a number of republicans are already running including a counties executive and former congressman mark newman, and possible democratic candidate, and the milwaukee mayor. firefighters fighting nearly a dozen regional firefighters in california. governor arnold schwarzenegger urging people to listen to the mandatory evaluati

mandatory evacuation orders. close to eight square miles of land. 25 firefighters have been hurt in various blazes. the extent of their injuries is not yet known. well, the material girl, merely mom, celebrating her 51st birthday today, madonna. >> madonna is 51? >> yeah. >> she's 51 with those thighs, that's right, mike. she works all the time. madonna fans couldn't wait to say happy birthday to her and broke out in song in the middle of her world tour ♪ happy birthday to madonna ♪ happy birthday to you . >> nothing like the polish version of happy birthday. in the traditional birthday song they wished ma done know would -- madonna would live a hundred years. she looks good. >> she'll look good at a

hundred. >> the teleprompter says traditional polish birthday song. instead of just happy birthday? >> you should hear the tradition traditional song. >> guys, the tropics have gone crazy, three storms going ana and bill, both of these storms. ana looking unimpressive. bill looking etreemly impression and bill could be a bigger story and ana could be a factor for the u.s., watching those closely the next few days and i'll have more on those tracks and this, however, formed overnight the storms offer southern florida yesterday actually have become a tropical depression, not yet named. if it does get named. it will be claudette. not a lot of real estate, moving to the northwest and land fall tonight into tomorrow morning, around the panhandle of florida and the wind storm around 40, 45 miles per hour, and could have localized flooding and some areas probably around five or

six inches of rain and this wrapped up here and going to continue to pull off to the north and not enough time for this to become a major problem and nobody will see any major damage from this. the only other story across the u.s. for the day today is up here across the plains. more areas of minnesota, down through parts of kansas and areas of iowa and in towards missouri could be seeing reaches of rain and flooding as well. >> all right, thanks so much. >> hurricane bill. >> yeah. >> all right, is the recession really over? as some people in government would have you believe? not so fast, it was a frightening new statistics on the foreclosures in the u.s., are more americans losing their homes than really ever before? we'll take a look at that. >> feast your eyes on tasty treats. 800 pound cupcake with frosting and a lady pops out in the middle. >> really? >> no. >> that's not actually what happened. we will be right back.

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>> welcome back here to "fox & friends." well, some in the white house suggest that our economy is on an upswing because the latest jobless numbers weren't as bad as expected. what does the foreclosure rate stay about the real state of the economy. connell mcshane from the fox business network joins us. connell, is the recession over? >> it might be. it might not matter to real team. foreclosures up from where it was in june. and some states, michigan, unemployment is 15%, for example, south carolina another state 12% or more, so it feels like a recession. real quick the definition of a recession, two consecutive negative growth. we're in the third quarter. many economists think the number will be positive so technically we may be out after recession. >> technically yes, but for main street it doesn't matter as much because consumer

spending. >> still down. >> people buying back to school items and supplies now, they can't. who cares what people are saying on wall street if people can't afford it. >> if it doesn't feel that way, we have a sentiment number that came out on consumers that was very, very disappointing and below expectations and the idea here, we may be in a recovery, but the economist calls, most say quote unquote a u-shaped recovery and if we fell off a cliff, a v, down and back up. they don't think that's going to happen. meander along the bottom for a while and eventually come back, but it's going to take some time and even though the economists might come out and say the recession is over, ended in july of 2009, technically began in december of 2007, long recession by any measures, it still might not feel like it. >> couldn't be the u be bet are for the economy than the v? >> building the better base and bend your knees, your back is stronger. >> we have to work through a lot before we can answer the request he, maybe.

>> what's the barometer so we all know when the recession is really over and not technically over? we look at the stock market, look at the jobless rate, we look at foreclosures? >> we look at all the things. lots of people who lost tons much money in the 401(k), the stock market, feel better. for those who rely on it. for somebody in michigan, i mentioned 15% unemployment, out of work, the recession is not over. recession is an an important one and they don't expect until sometime next year. >> when someone can sell their homes. connell, thank you. could federal funds for health care reform be used to provide abortion sns our next guest taking a closer look at this in three minutes. >> vintage cars rolled through the motor city for the latest one day auto event in the world is huge, we'll bring you that straight ahead. cool. >> i'm robert shapiro. over a million people

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this record setting cupcake weighs. the detroit bakery attempted a 7,000 pound cupcake, didn't work out, but they did it, they did it this time and it worked out and it's a world record cupcake weight. >> delicious. >> tasty. >> send that to us. could the democrat's health care plan use federal funds for abortion? a heated debate between pro-life and pro choice sides and revolves around an amendment to the health care bill. >> it says nothing in the act shall be construed as preventing the public health insurance option for providing for or prohibiting coverage for abortion in the public option. joining us from philadelphia to cut through the smoke is dan, a senior writer for u.s. world and news report. good morning, david. >> hey, good morning. >> all right, the question here, what's the truth? is there a provision in this bill that would pay for, federal funding would pay for abortions? what's the truth here? >> well, it kind of depends on which side you believe, you know, you talk to the

democrats and they know in the house, democratic health care plan, there is a provision that seg gates funds and says you're using federal funds and doesn't go directly to funded abortions, but in the conservatives say that even though there's a technical segregation, they're calling it a paper fiction, that government funds are still going to go to underwrite public health care plans and also private plans, participating in health care exchange, so, in effect, they'll technically be underwriting abortion. depends which side you believe. >> not only that, as i understand it, there's a provision in there that would subsidize health care for low income or no income people and in that way, might federal funds be followed to abortions? well, the way the house law is written, under no circumstances could federal funds directly because of abortion, even in those cases you'd have premiums paid for by the policy holders going

supposedly to pay for those abortions. now, the debate is really over well, if you're subsidizing the plans say for low income women that are having abortions, is the money technically segregated for abortion. because it's all going into the same pot, is taxpayer money still funding the procedures? >> and the archbishop shops have a problem with this. and from the archbishop in philadelphia, cardinal regally. reversing longstanding policies against federal funding and mandated coverage of abortion and they go on to say it's legal fiction. is this legal fiction? >> i don't know depending on which side you believe if this is a legal fiction or not. the letter from the bishops is troubling for the obama administration. here you have the catholic church in america being one of the foremost proponents of universal access to health care coverage.

so, these are-- this group, the u.s. catholic bishops should be allies to the white house on this issue. the white house can't get the catholic church behind its health care bill because of their misgiving over the abortion provision, i think they're going to have a lot of trouble passing the bill. >> all right. dan from u.s. world and news report, thank you for coming in to attempt to clear this up for us, but obviously, it sounds like there's still confusion among all the bills, dan, thank you. >> i'm going to link to it and put it up on twitters if our viewers want to reads more, thanks, dan. >> she called people who go to town halls, well, disrupters and she said that trying to disrupt conversation is unamerican. now, nancy pelosi may be changing her tune. what is she saying now? >> big trouble, storms mopping up in the caribbean, do you say caribbean? >> caribbean. >> i say caribbean. >> watches, we have all kinds of watches in the united states and rick has a quick look at the watches, hey, rick. >> and certain tropical

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o out, welcome back. >> clayton morris, alisyn camerota and that's mike jerrick. >> for a day. >> a week ago or so nancy pelosi was talking about health care reform and she mentioned these words, drowning out opposing views is unamerican. a lot of people said that means that people protesting the health care issue were unamerican. >> people were standing up in town hall meetings. >> raucous. >> being disruptive. >> she said that was being unamerican. >> she wrote that at an op-ed piece with steny hero, not house majority leader, steny hoyer, she put that in the op-ed piece. >> that meant that she can't like disruptions into the meetings and we went into the vaults and found a bite from her in 2006 talk to go people who were against the war and this is what she had to say. >> let me close this on the

democrats and how we see ourselves and how i hope you're hopeful. when franklin roosevelt died and i draw great inspiration from him because he's a disrupter, i'm a fan of disrupters, people who make and take a chance. >> she's a fan of disrupters, and back in i think in that very same meeting she called some of the protesters up to the front row, so rather than, you know, shooing them out of the meeting she said come up here, let us hear your voices. anti-war. >> can i provide a little historical context. >> i wish you would. >> i love teddy roosevelt and love him about the state legislature she was referring to. get up in the late legislature. they were ought fraud, fraudulent. everyone in there was corrupt and he gets up in front of the press and starts calling out people in the legislature, when he was in new york, you were taking money underhandedly and he was appalled, bringing this disruption and the press woke

up and started paying attention. she's saying as a republican i love what teddy roosevelt did, americans getting up and standing up for what's rights or unamerican in this piece. >> walks off with his line. >> let me tell you what your headlines are at this hour. north korea's recent string of conciliatory gestures is over. the north now taking back and talking tough. officials warning of quote, merciless retaliation if threats, the warning comes as the u.s. and south korea kick off simulated worth games and the north views this as possible preparation for invasion, a few weeks after bill clinton's trip to north korea to win the release of detained journalists, laura ling and lee. scotland is urged not to release the man involved in the bombing of pan am.

he's tying of prostate cancer. he was sentenced to life in prison after being convicted of the 1988 bombing that killed 269 people on the plane and 11 people on the ground. in an effort to save some dough, america's third largest city will be closed for business tomorrow. so, if you want to go to the library or get your trash picked up in chicago, you're out of luck. most employees have the day off without pay. this is one of three shutdown days this year which will save chicago more than 8 million bucks. >> is oprah going to work though? >> i think it's a rerun. >> they call it the woodward dream cruise in detroit. more than 40,000 hot rods and vintage automobiles around the countries, cruise into the city for 16 mile parade of vintage beauties. corvettes, camaros, firebirds, thunderbir thunderbirds. >> my first car was a vet, a chevette, but i called it the

vet. >> that was a whole other. >> i opened that up to 55. >> how much. >> 4 miles to gallon. no, first of all, it's ten pounds gets a lot more mileage than that. >> i remember a chevette, yeah. >> i had a horrible car like that, i called it the shove-it (laughter) >> it was pathetic. >> and down at twitter a few minutes bag ago, men will look at this, men and women prefer working for men. >> according to a new poll. >> in britain. they're human so-- >> that's where we began. >> we started. we founded most of the polls in britain are pretty much accurate in the united states. take a look at numbers here, 63% would rather have a male boss, 37% would remember rather have a female boss. >> now, were these women specifically. >> working women. >> 20,000 working women.

>> i now do good day philadelphia, with my lovely co-anchors, and they want a shout out. but the executive producer of the show is a woman. her name is mary anne. >> mary anne. >> i can't stand her-- no, she's of fantastic and a lot of-- i've worked mostly primarily for women throughout my television career. >> and by the way, there are only women at the top of this show, our executive producer, all of our senior producing staff are women. i think that it's important-- >> how do you feel about that? >> i feel great about it. the show is very well-run. i'll say this, i've had male bosses and female boss, i've had wonderfulfully supportive male bosses whom i loved. and horrible bosses, male bosses. i would rather work for a woman. more compassion and when i cry, they take care of me. >> and here is the deal, i worked for a woman as well, i've worked for women, for men

and i agree with you, alisyn, it's across the board although i was warned one time by a woman boss i had, and she said to me, she was actually crazy, and she said don't ever work for a woman. if you can avoid it don't ever work for a woman. >> i've heard that, too. >> and she warned me about it and you don't have a choice. >> the survey, does women want to work for women? >> in britain. i'm not sure this holds true in america. >> they're human beings. >> the best boss i ever had in my life, take camera three, roger ailes, roger-- >> you're shameless. i agree. >> you are. >> and so do i. here is the deal, they claim that men are more authoritative, more straight talking and more likely to dish out praise. i do not find that to be true. women have praised me in my career and also, men, men have criticized me in my career. possibly more than women, yes. >> yeah, but here is the

thing, so your point, the survey found that the reason people think mimm are women are stronger, they're more compassionate, personal issues, they want to go to a female boss more than a male boss. >> going back to philly, they're compassionality and pull me aside to be completely honest, straight shooters. >> don't like the cattiness, barbie on twitter, i can work with both men and women. she doesn't have a problem with that. >> the reason the survey bites way, the labor deputy leader in britain, hair yacrriet harmo said that men could not be left to run things on their own. >> i don't know about that harriet. i love to get my weather from men. >> and we have one. >> okay, rick. >> a lot going on, you know, yesterday we had one tropical storm and one thing we were watching and we talked about might be bill. now we have ana, bill and maybe claudette.

this has now become tropical depression four, 90 miles to the south, southwest of the tampa area and pulling off towards the northwest. radar pictures showing a nice tightly clustered areas of thunderstorms around the eastern side of this storm and as it continues to pull off to the north on this track, we're going to see this making landfall, probably overnight tonight, but we're around the panhandle of florida and some isolated areas, maybe up to ten inches of rain and that's coming from localized flooding and doesn't have enough time to strengthen on that much. but we could see a 45, maybe a 55 mile per hour sustained storm during the overnight hours across areas of florida. so, a rough night tonight across the panhandle and now let's move further out into the atlantic and this is where we have the other two storms. ana and bill. ana is barely holding on as tle an a lot of things making it difficult for ana, really to gain too much strength. bill is a different story, bill is going to be a major storm for us probably, but probably not affecting the

u.s. take a look at track of ana, looks like it will continue to pull up to the west, a lot of interaction with lands. if it does not interact with land and can contain itself together, we could be potentially talking about a storm in the gulf the end of this week. the track of bill is a different story, this now is forecast to become a major hurricane, this will be the first mauj hurricane we've had, in fact, the first major hurricane in the atlantic this year and hopefully it will get pulled up by a trough and not have impacts across the u.s. way too early to say that just yet, guys. we're talking about this storm probably for about the next week. and there still is a chance it could be affecting the u.s. so, a lot going on, very suddenly, in the tropics. >> i can hear dave right now, in the caribbean, whew. >> yeah, it's been so quiet this year. >> yeah, thanks, rick. >> thanks so much. >> he may be only 11, but he's very grownup about reporting. you remember this little guy, damon weaver, he was on our show around the time of the

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>> president obama has faced a lot of difficult questions concerning his domestic agenda. perhaps the most interesting when he came down to discuss education reform with 11-year-old aspiring journalist damon weaver. >> we have problems at school. >> i remember when i use today get school lunches, sometimes they taste so good i've got to admit. >> we have french fridays every day for lunch. >> like that, too, damon weaver joins us live now from washington d.c., good morning, damon. >> good morning. >> so, damon, tell us how did you score this big coup being able to interview the president? >> well, he had his people call my people

(laughter) >> now, that's very funny, damon because i remember we interviewed you on "fox & friends" around the time of the inauguration and you said this was the big get that you wanted. so it took eight months and you did it. what was the most important question that you wanted to ask the president? >> well, the most important question on the subject, 'cause the subject was education, and the most important subject for question was how can education improve for all of these. >> and what did he say? >> well, i forgot. >> he had a very long answer. >> i'm sure that he gave a complicated sort of policy, wo wonkish answer. did you ask him any question, any tricky question that tripped him up? >> well, no, i don't think so.

>> what did he finally agree to about school lunches? can he make them better? >> well, he-- i suggested that we have french fries and mangos, he said that we need to be-- we need to eat healthy lunches because something to make us big and strong the way we need to be. >> he's got a good point there. you also asked the president if he would be willing to agree to have a special relationship with you, let's listen to that. >> when i interviewed vice-president joe biden, he became my home boy, now that i interviewed you would you like to become my home boy? >> absolutely. thank you, man, great job. >> that's very cool. you got the president to be your home boy. what does that mean? what special perks do you now get? >> well, now, i'm friends with president obama, that's what home boy means? >> that's fantastic. damon, you know, we know that you got a great, great

scholarship and in fact, you will be going, if you want, if you choose to accept this, for a full scholarship to albany state university in georgia. even though you're only 11 years old. so what are your plans for the future? >> well, for the future, i plan on being a part-time-- part-time astronaut, pilot, but if we have to go out to space on the day i've got to do news, i'm going to have to try to get the day off on the news. >> best of luck, damon, you're doing such a great job. we love hearing your interviews. and tell your home boy the president, that we said hi. >> okay. >> thanks so much, damon. >> i love that, part-time news anchor, part-time astronaut. of coming up here on the show, some developing news and breaking news we're following out of russia. two jets colliding at an air show there, reports at least

one pilot is dead. the latest on this developing story in just three minutes. then it's an unbelievable and heart breaking story, a boy ripped from his home in the united states and abducted to italy. he winds up in an orphanage, but now he's missing from that orphanage and italy basically shuts down for the month of august. where is the boy this morning? the boy joins us right after the break. the you don't want to miss this. ♪ bicycle, what are we waiting for? the flowers are blooming. the air is sweet. and zyrtec® starts... relieving my allergies... 2 hours faster than claritin®. my worst symptoms feel better, indoors and outdoors. with zyrtec®, the fastest... 24-hour allergy medicine, i promise not to wait as long to go for our ride. zyrtec® works fast, so i can love the air™.

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. >> this is a fox news alert. as we mentioned before the break, two fighter jets collide the at an air show, there are reports at least one person is dead. this happened at an air show outside of moscow. the su-27 fighters were part after elite team. a spokesman says that three pilots who ejected from the jet are in good condition, but again, a report that one of the pilots has died.

alisyn. >> today, we have an update for you on the heart breaking story that we reported last week about the american father fighting to get his little boy, liam, out of an italian orphanage after the mother abducted him and took him to italy. >> on "fox & friends," that dad has been going through a media whirlwind trying to get any help he can. here he is with an update on his fight to get liam back. in a nutshell, people missed the interview with you. give us an overview what happened with your son. >> in march of 2007 he was kidnapped by his mother and taken to rome. i spent the next, the better part of the next two years trying to locate him and reconnect and i was not able to do so until the italian authorities finally stepped in and removed him from her, finding her unfit, but instead of giving him back to me they put nim an orphanage, that's

where he is. >> let's talk about, there's a troubling update this week, you have been trying to get him out of this orphanage for the past five months. >> yeah. >>, but italy shuts down basically the month of august. >> yeah. >> do you today know where liam is. >> i don't know. i mean, i don't know exactly where he is. we've been furiously reaching out trying to get some answers, i haven't been able it get any direct answers. i've been told that some kids go on vacation together. some kids are maybe allowed to go out for some weeks in the summer with relatives. he may be with the grandparents, that's disturbing because they helped her in the beginning and i'm worried that he may be at risk to be kidnapped again. it's very disturbing. >> so disturbing and one reason you want today come on television was specifically to get media attention, to draw attention to the italian authorities who have not helped you at all. what has been the update? have they been responsive to you. >> i don't know if i've gotten their attention, i've gotten

some feedback, they might not be particularly happy about me coming out and doing this, but i can tell you that i've gotten enormous support from italian people and italian americans, e-mail after e-mail of people saying that they are just ashamed of the way that their government is handling this. and i really appreciate that support. it's been every wheming. >> and i know that this has been a nightmare for you. as parents we can only imagine what it's been like to be separated from your son there, we see how close you are in the pictures and video. and you have sole custody. courts awarded you sole custody. how have you been dealing with this? >> it's hard, a nightmare, i think that any parent can imagine what it could be like. we've all had the moments just for an instant we can't find our child and it's terrifying. well, i've been living that terror for two and a half years, but every time i start to think about how i'm feeling, i wonder how liam is feeling.

i mean, what's going through his mind. what has he been told about in? it's a horrific nightmare. >> what are your biggest fears this morning? and we're looking at the photos here and of course, the question, where is liam, what are your biggest fears for him this morning? >> as i said, i have immediate fears for his safety right now. i mean, you know, what hit me this week is that at least in the orphanage when i'm trying to get him out. he is protected. and i don't know where he is, and i can't get answers from the italian authorities. he is at risk. and beyond that, i'm just deeply concerned that he's going to stay a prisoner of-- in this, you know, per version of bureaucracy that has him trapped and if they put him there and then they take him out and they put him somewhere else, he's been shuttled around, but his custody is in the hands of italian social services and that's the thing. that he's a prisoner of that

system and it is a nightmare. >> i know you're also concerned because your ex-wife manuela and the nelly, the courts took him away from her, she was found mentally unstable. while you don't know where she is, you fear she could be reconnecting with him. she's wanted by the fbi and interpol for abducting your son? >> exactly. if she gets access to him, god knows what can happen. and that is certainly the biggest immediate fear right now. >> our thoughts are certainly with you this morning, michael, and with liam as well as we hope there's a recovery of liam soon and hopefully we can keep drawing attention to the story. >> i'll put the website again on my blog, it is save liam.org. anybody who can help michael or has any suggestions, michael, thanks so much for coming in. >> thank you. >> and a look at what's coming up on the show.

i'm in the green room and even the green room looks red to me, looking for judge janine pirro, last year, utah state university college student of course, died of alcohol poisoning. now, his parents are suing the school, suing the university. we'll talk to janine about that. what chances they have of getting any money or whatever they're looking for in response to their son's death. also, check out this fast ball. it's he laid on the ground for at least a minute, didn't move. people in the stands were freaking out. and peopwe'll get an update on s condition. condition. >> sweet! sweet! (together) sweet! (announcer) now for the first time, a gram of healthy fiber in every packet. sweet! (announcer) splenda® with fiber.

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>> good morning everyone, it's sunday, august 16th. here is what's happening at this hour. sparks fly at the white house after hundreds of people claim they're getting unsolicited e-mails from the white house and it's putting the press secretary, robert gibbs there on the defensive. >> well, you're asking me if they're on a list and-- >> no, they're telling me. >> because their way of checking without asking me to double-check the names. >> where did the white house get those e-mail address sns we'll take a closer look. >> she gave birth to eight babies with the help of one man. her doctor. yeah, you know the story, it's the october mom--

octo-mom. she should be to blame or doctors. >> new york mets david wright knocked in the head with a 93 mile an hour fast ball. >> my gosh. >> the giants. was it intentional? how is he doing this morning? this is "fox & friends." >> oh, my gosh! >> we are talking about ice cream this morning. >> that does make everything better. >> that makes everything better. >> good morning, you're watching "fox & friends," nice! nice! >> good morning, and welcome to "fox & friends" on this beautiful sunday morning. that's mike jerrick. >> and it's fun working with you, too. >> thank you. >> and this weekend has been fantastic. >> a blast. >> we've got ice cream. when you come in, we have ice cream. >> ben and jerry has a global contest to name and concoct

your own ice cream flavor and they would name it and a runoff. so, 15 finalists, down to 15 finalists one from the united states. it's a woman from wisconsin and she has created very simple ingredients. it's caramel, almonds and caramel swirl. they need a name for that. >> and a flavor yet to be named. so what name would you come up for those, caramel, almonds, caramel swirl. might be something like caramel chameleon. >> nicely done, i like that. >> and send us a blog for the new flavors. >> we'll talk about parents who send their child off to college, as many do, and the child overindulged at college, got drunk, got alcohol poisoning, happens from time to time with students. the parents are now suing the college. is it the college's responsibility? >> yeah, do they bear some partial responsibility for that young man's death?

at a chal alcohol infused college party. >> our attention first of all for the town hall meetings. we've been following them for you here at fox, a mouthful. the president at grand junk, colorado, home of the railroad. he was there and wanted to tour about the town and spoke to the fine folks there in colorado and had this to say, invoking his grandmother, take a listen. i just lost my grandmother last year, noi what it's like to watch somebody you love who's aging deteriorate. and have to struggle with that. so the notion that somehow i ran for public office or members of congress are in this so that they can go around pulling the plug on grandma?

i mean, when you start making arguments like that, that's simply dishonest. >> it may be, but it was effective. because this week, as you know, after all the talk about end of life counseling, the same thing that sarah palin calls death panels, it caught fire, it became controversial and the senate finance committee ended up spiking if from their health care plan and it still does exist in a couple house versions, but this has been very controversial. end of life counseling as the president was saying there, is important for people dealing with a terminal illness. do you want that to be just a decision between the doctor and patient or guidelines from the government? i think his argument is that that paid for medicare by the government. i didn't know that that was a service that doctors billed for, frankly. i was naive when my father had the counseling that they weren't billing for that, but somebody has to pay for it.

>> yeah, just about four weeks ago, now, july 17th my ex-wife died of cancer, the mother of my two children, so we really welcomed the end of life counseling for her. i think she really appreciated it, too, but then you go to who pays for that. if i get a bill for that, do i want my insurance company to pay for that. >> and do you want the government telling your doctor the guidelines for what they can-- >> no, no, and to what the president was saying yesterday invoking his grandmother's life, something close to him. she passed away two days or a day before election day. >> two days. >> and an op-ed in the wall street journal pointing out one very important point to the message to the american people, the passion with which he can speak. frank luntz talks about when president obama speaks people listen. it's now he speaks about it, he has to be passionality and turning a corner and invoking personal stories from himself. >> probably not a bad idea.

i've got some e-mails, president obama, a brilliant man no question, and some say that sarah palin is kind after dim bulb. didn't she win this one? didn't she win this one? >> according to the wall street journal this morning, a piece called palin wins, palin wins this argument because in all the spin soaps people are operating both sides of this debate, political football, brought up a point for senior care that hasn't been talked about. >> another issue that everybody is worried about, if there is this health care reform, would it ultimately do away with your own private insurance? because they could be just priced out the of the market. if the public option is so much cheaper, then will your employer say, well, i'm sorry, you're going to have the public option because i can't afford to pay for this. zack lane, a college student brought this up with the president yesterday at the town hall meeting. listen. . >> how in the world can a private corporation providing insurance compete with an

entity that does not have to worry about make ago profit, doesn't have to pay local property taxes, they do not have-- they're not subject to local regulation, how can a company compete with that. >> i think there's a way we can address those competitive issues. you're right if they're not entirely addressed then that raises a set of legitimate problems, but the only point i wanted to make was the notion that somehow just pby having a public option, you have the entire private marketplace destroyed is just not born pout by the facts. >> now, the president there said we can address those. we can talk about those. but he didn't exactly give the answer that i think zack was wanting, which was exactly how can you guarantee that i'll be able to get my own health care, but maybe he did it here. >> mabel he did it in the op-ed piece. the president running an op-ed piece not only speaking on the

trail, drumming up support and talking about the print in the new york times and-- >> speaking of new york, this story after thursday, 72-year-old businessman, runs a restaurant called the blue flame and run it for years and years and years. four guys come in to rob the place and he whips out a shotgun that is legally registered to him, he shoots all four of them. two of them are dead and the other two are wounded. so, should he be charged with a crime? >> he's not being charged. in fact, today, he's being hailed as a hero, even by the police commissioner, ray kelly, who says that this guy did what is totally lawful and anybody would do defending. >> let's listen to the store owner as he has this to say, take a listen. >> any money, put your gun away go on home, i won't call the police, i won't do anything, they thought about it a little bit and that didn't work, they got more and more violent. hurting my guy worse.

>> they were pistol whipping one of his store employees and the law says if you think you're in an imminent danger and a weapon will be used on you. >> and he bought the shotgun 20 years ago, said he was robbed before. he had this in his store waiting. >> 20 years. >> protecting himself. he had it there, he had the right to have it there and protect himself and defense these guys, thugs coming in there and the other two days recovering are waiting to be arraigned. >> and what else is incredible, he's in a harlem, which has seen a renaissance lately. >> beautiful, beautiful process, but he stuck it out during the the hard times in harlem, he had his business and stayed there for decades and it's a horribly unfortunate situation, but everybody is behind him. >> gust agus tto. >> rick has been monitoring the storms. >> remember how we were saying there's nothing going on in the caribbean this year? this is changed. s this the last 12 hours in

florida. disturbance is bringing a lot of rain and overnight consolidated here and has become our fourth tropical depression. likely will become claudette later on today. the radar image closer to the land so we can get a radar image and see the rotation and the heavy rain showers. wherever this makes landfall across the areas of the panhandle, right around that center, we're probably going to be seeing some places getting about ten inches of rain and that's going to cause localized flooding and start this afternoon and continue overnight hours tonight. here is a look though at the path of this, continuing to pull up towards the northwest. officially may be getting around 45 miles per hour, sustained storms and we could see stronger than that. maybe 50, 55 miles per hour the same storm and in the panhandle make your preparations right now. these are the other two named storms. this is ana and the first storm of the year. and ana trying to hold on and bill getting strong. bill likely to become a major hurricane around three to five days from now, could have some impacts for eastern part of the u.s. or possibly bermuda.

so we'll continue to watch these closely. alisyn over to you thanks so much, rick. the headlines for you, what is happening, some stories developing this morning, including two russian jets that have collided in russian air show rehearsal, leaving at least one person dead. this video just into our fox news room. the planes slammed into each other while in a five plane formation. initial reports say as many as five people on the ground were burned when the jet slald slammed into nearby homes. we have a horribly tragic story to tell you about at this wedding in kuwait. 41 women and children were killed when a fire tore through a wedding tent. fire officials say the fire moved so fast, the tent burned to the ground in just three minutes. at least 76 other people were hurt. authorities believe faulty

wiring may be to blame. no men died in the fire. wedding parties are held separately for kuwaiti men and women. oh, how tragic. here is your favorite story. >> new video this from yesterday, michael vick back on the practice field the first time in nearly three years, and with the philadelphia eagles, taking a few snaps. he was the last player off the field. four protesters greeted the quarterback, vick served 18 years-- 18 months, wow, he couldn't play in his 40's, i don't think so. 18 months behind bars for dog fighting charges and while the signing was generated controversy, the nfl is already out with new vick jerseys, there's a bunch of billboards going up in the philadelphia area and one of them says "guard your beagle, vick is an eagle". >> ooh! >> oh! >> yeah, see how that goes. >> here is the story i've been following for you, this is fascinating. if you've got a cell phone and

most americans do now and you make a phone call to someone, this is what you're likely to he hear. i'm calling you. take a listen. >> he's not available right now, please leave a detailed message after the tone. when you finished recording you may hang up or press pound for more options. that takes about 15 seconds to do. there's a problem that's costing us millions and phone companies are making millions off of these messages, these 15 second messages. >> it's not just somebody's too verbose in the message like mike may have been, it's that they put in their own messages like press one if you want to reach-- press two regular delivery. stuff you don't want on your cell phone message. >> verizon they'll make over 600 million dollars as a result of the extra messages and lengths from which they have in your phone. here is verizon. listen, here is verizon. >> at the tone please record your message. when you finished recording you may hang up or press one

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>> authority not granted to you as a united states senat senator. >> all right. that was joshua lions, he's in the maryland senator's town hall meeting. why are constituents so upset about president obama's health care reform. >> thank you, josh, i know you're a father of two. have you ever been prompted to go out to something like a town hall meeting before? >> no, i'm an average citizen just like so many other, af got a beautiful wife, a couple of kids who love to keep me up at night and go to their soccer games, go to school, they go to school i go to church and work and sounds like most the people i know.

>> why did you-- what made you want to go to this? and why do you think that your senator, senator benjamin harden, doesn't have the constitutional authority to be involved in the health care debate? >> well, there are certain enumerated powers that are defined right in our united states constitution. a couple of clause haves been redefined over time incorrectly and just because legislators and bureaucrats and presidents and justices redefined what those mean doesn't make it right. we need to hold them accountable to the powers in article 1, section 8 regardless of party affiliation. >> to be clear we reached out to senator carden to come on the show here, but left a number of messages, all of which were not returned i should mention. >> a lot of critics and republicans included, joshua, saying, looks, our health care system is in shamables, this is not a political thing.

and who do you think has the authority to change it and who should change it? >> i think in the constitution they've defined it pretty clearly. these things not enumber mated powers are left to the state and to the people. we cannot deal with health care at these centralized government levels, it comes down to a couple of things. people mistaken, are mistaken and missed the point when they look at the specifics of the health care legislation, it comes down to two things, it comes down to authority or lack thereof, the little kings that step out of bounds of article 1, section 8 and comes down to rights, health care, okay, as a right, individuals do not have a right to health care at another individual's expense. you know, you kind of put it this way. if i have a wealthy neighbor who has done well, worked hard and then i have another neighbor who is a good person, worked hard, just hasn't gotten ahead and they have a health care situation, i can't go over to that first neighbor and force him to take care of

the expenses for the other neighbor and that's what our legislator on-- legislators on capitol hill really have done, with the signing of their pen. >> i hope that nancy pelosi is watching, joshua, you're certainly not a disrupter, you bring a very powerful argument to the health care debate. we appreciate you joining us 0 on "fox & friends," thanks so mu much. >> good talking, we wish we had longer, you know how times goes on "fox & friends." this information, an air traffic controller on the phone with his girlfriend when this happens over the hudson river. well, janine pirro is going to come in and talk to us about, welcome, how much responsibilities should that air traffic controller be held to and what is he going to have to do, be suspended continually? is it criminal? >> another story janine pirro will talk about. the octo mom, does the woman have the right to implant as many eggs as she wants? that's an interesting question. we will be right back.

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>> who can forget the shocking story of nadia seoul marn, the unemployed mother of six who gave birth to eight babies with the help of ivf or in vitro fertilization. that has had a ripple effect. there is pending legislation in various states to keep a case like octo mom from happening again. is that fair for the regular couples just trying to build their families? joining me for the fair and balanced debate is executive director of resolve, the national infertility association and ken blackwell senior fellow at family research council. good morning to you both. >> good morning, alisyn. >> ken, i understand that you feel that ivf clinics need

more regulation, but let's face it, this octo mom case was extreme. so why subject everyone else to more rules because of nadya suleman? >> well, to me, baby mills that have essentially are unregulated businesses and the profit motive is driving, what i consider to be ethical decisions. so, that family research council is advocating for the tiniest of human beings to keep them out of a path of wanton destruction, how we believe that fraps, italy, italy and germany, these should be regulated. >> when you say mills, you mean fertility clinics, you're calling baby-- >> they have almost no rules, they are self-regulated. there is nothing that gives any consideration to the impact on the children, the

impact on society and we really don't believe that taxpayers should subsidize this wanton production of babies who can't be cared for. >> okay. >> so what we're saying. >> let me-- >> let's just regulate this like they do in italy and germany. >> okay. >> where they say no more than three embryos can be implanted. so that keeps it away from the wanton destruction of human life. >> barb, what would that kind of regulation mean for the 7.3 million people in the country dealing with infertility? >> well, first of all, it's just really great to have this debate and have this discussion because listening to the discussion, really what we're talking about is people who have been diagnosed with disease who so want to be parents. and they should be allowed to have access to this medical treatment that in effect will

help them overcome infertility. overcome their disease. in terms of the regulation that you're referring to, there's a lot of regulation, first of all, of the inter filth industry, these are medical professionals, they're regulated by a number of government agencies as well as state rules, these are medical professionals and i have to say, i have met hundreds of fertility doctors across the country and you couldn't find a more passionate, caring group of physicians who are really wanting the the best for their patients, which is a healthy mom, and a healthy baby. >> sure, okay. and sorry to interrupt you. let me bring in right now this sound bite that we have from nadya suleman. fox is airing a special on august 16th. the unseen footage, behind of the story of octo mom. le let's show you a snippet how she feels now.

. [babies crying] . >> you no wknow what is happen g happening happening-- >> all right. that is just a shot. actually i thought we were going to hear from her. that was a shot of what her life was like with all of these new babies in her home. we have to leave it there for time. thank you so much for coming on to debate it. there are obviously strong feelings on both sides and again, be sure to watch the upcoming fox special, octo mom, the unseen footage, on august 19th. sorry, i correct myself. wednesday, august 19th. barbara, and ken blackwell, thank you so much for coming in to debate it. >> good to be with you. >> all right, meanwhile, hundreds of people claim they're getting unsolicited e-mails on health care reform. where did the white house get the e-mail addresses? could it be a violation of privacy. and an expert and janine pirro weighs in and knocked out at

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. >> welcome back here at "fox & friends." we want to get to rick reichmuth tracking the weather developments in the caribbean. >> yeah, and a new tropical depression, we do have now tropical storm warnings in effect from pensacola, actually right here at the alabama, florida border down to the river, this entire area

with warnings, you're going to see conditions get worse through the afternoon and during overnight hours we'll probably see the worst in the center of the storm pull on shore. this is a look at the radar image. you can see some very heavy rain showers and thunderstorms across the eastern side of this. that will continue to bull off. as we do see areas of the panhandle, maybe up to around ten inches of rain, that's going to cause some localized flooding. and this is the official track of it, and pretty organized. we could see a strength of maybe more than that. 50, 55 miles per hour, not going to cause any major damage, but the flooding is probably the biggest concern and the other two storms we're watching, one is ana, really looking rather ragged at this point. bill not the case though, bill very organized still. i want to show you the track of two storms. ana looks likes potentially interaction from hispanola and cuba. if that's the case and it kind of stay together at this point, we're not concerned about it as maybe moves over

to the gulf. if it does not have much interaction with land it can hold itself together right now, we could potentially by say, friday to saturday, be talking about something a little more scary in across areas of the gulf. the path for bill looks a little bit better for us, but a much bigger storm. probably getting to major hurricane status at some point and i think before it gets to the u.s., it will probably take a big right curve and maybe affect areas of bermuda. you can't rule that one out still yet across the eastern part of the country. a lot going on in the tropics. >> sure is, thanks so much, rick. in the meantime what's going on in your news, also. let me tell you the headlines. the president taking a tour of the grand canyon in arizona today. after hosting a series of town hall meetings in montana and colorado using the recent death of his grandmother to defend against his critics, saying he'd never pull the plug on the elderly. the president hammered the insurance companies. >> bureaucrats meddling in

your health care, but the point is i don't want insurance company bureaucrats meddling in your health care either. >> this is all part of a new strategy to quiet the opposition to health care reform. >> no more mr. nice guy. after a string of conciliatory gestures, including the release of two meramerican journalists in north korea, talking tough. north korea is it warning of merciless retaliation if threatened. this comes as the u.s. and south korea get ready to engage in war games and new sanctions against the country. connecticut senator chris dodd is out of the hospital following surgery for prostate cancer. the senator was diagnosed with an early treatable form of the disease. the five term democrat says it will have no impact on his plans to seek reelection. dodd is in for a tough fight. he's been under fire for connections with fannie mae and freddie mac and getting a sweetheart mortgage deal, they say.

his home is a place where a mother and her boyfriend allegedly forced her six and nine-year-old boys to fight each other. police say they were forced to fight more than 20 times, their fifth until they cried or gave up. joyce and stephen meyer are now under arrest for child endangerment. the boys were told the fighting were to toughen them up. the boy's biological father was the one to find out and report the bruises. a terrifying moment at the mets game when david wright gets beaned in the head with a 94 mile per hour fastball for . he eventually got up and taken by ambulance to the hospital. he suffered a concussion, but is expected to be fine, he'll be out for several games. i've met him in the green room. he's very handsome, that's all i can say. >> what does it have to do with the story. >> i'm sorry, what was the story. >> don't want to hurt his face. let's bring in a special guest in the studio this morning.

the lovely judge janine pirro. >> good morning, judge. >> good morning, how are you. >> we've got news to get through. >> i miss you, how are you? >> nice to see you though. >> you look fantastic. >> oh, i do? thank you very much. >> cute as david wright. >> what am i to say to that. >> don't even pay attention. >> i'm not talking to you. >> i missed you. >> judge, we've been talking about what's going on e-mail exchanges back and forth, people receiving, allegedly receiving e-mails from the white house, unsolicited. receiving e-mails on a list where they've never been on candidate obama, on organizing for america, never gave their names, but getting e-mails on health care reform. major garrett in the press room talks about this with press secretary gibbs. how do people get on the lists and is there anything illegal happening. >> first of all, want to ask the same question. waist over there going through my e-mails, because i'm getting the e-mails. >> from axlerod. >> i have never contacted the

white house with respect to health care or anything else with this administration, i shunts be on any list. the question is why is someone like me getting these e-mails and where are they getting my name from? is this some kind after data collection effort on their part? how do they decide who actually gets the e-mails? is there some kind of screening? i am ooh, it really speaks of big brother and that's the privacy concern here. we've got a data collection program going on where the white house is e-mailing information to people who have never solicited that. >> well, you know, the question is whether it's illegal? i don't really know right now. is someone violating campaign laws by going on campaign lists and using the names to send information? it depends where they're getting them. understand one thing, anytime anyone writes to the white house, it's saved, it then becomes part of the national archives. so, anyone who contacted them, they have an obligation to keep it. but then if you're getting lists illegally, maybe they're getting them legally. all the time. and this is with a the public

has to watch out for. do not give your e-mail address to anyone if you then want to receive all of this stuff. >> it may not be illegal, but is it unethical. >> quite possibly unethical. i don't think there's any question it may be unethical. we're pushing politics in a big brother kind of way to people mo haven't asked for it, saving that information. if i then respond am i checked off as this kind of person, that kind of person. what do they do with the lists in the future. >> because we should get to this quickly. you talked about a university, young man goes to the school, gets involved in a drinking party, a lot of-- >> what a shock, huh? >> booze at the parties and he dies of alcohol poisoning. can his parents, do his parents have the right to sue the school and hold them partially responsible for the young man's death? >> as a da, i've seen the tragic consequences to underage drinking and seen kids poison themselves and die on west chester campuses. this is a national problem. these universities go forward with a wink and a nod.

they make believe they don't know what's going on. rush week, when these kids are getting into fraternities, sororities, they're tied down and alcohol is forced down them and kids die. the parents absolutely should prosecute-- or file civilly against the university because they cannot deny that they did know the know and they're only response was we don't allow this. that's not the issue. >> let's hear from the student's father and we we'll talk about this afterwards. >> this really isn't just a problem for you, it's a problem for the whole country. hazing is a big issue and it's been an issue that's ignored until it strikes home. i didn't know squat about hazing until a couple of months ago. >> one side of the argument hearing from the father, but to the other side of the argument, what about personal responsibility here? >> personal responsibility is certainly primary here, you've got someone a minor, not allowed to drink. you've got an institution that understands this is a normal

course of conduct. the wink and the nod cannot work anymore. if our kids are dying and i agree with that father, he didn't know what hazing involved. do you think these kids go have a few beers. they're going and tying the kids down and pouring alcohol down them. >> the university would knowingly allow such a thing is incorrect. the safety and welcome being of all of our students is a prime concern we sauk issue regarding the university's responsibility in participating in off campus, nonufrt university-- nonuniversity activity. >> they're not promoting it, they have to know it goes on. >> they know it goes on. that's pure hogwash, if they're interested in the kids what they've got to do, get involved, make sure that hazing week and rush week and all the other stuff doesn't go down the way every kid in this country knows it does. >> legally because it's off campus, do they have cover? >> it's still part of the university. you have to try, i imagine the

case would be better if they show from the universities or knowledge that the minors were engaged in underage drinking, they knew it. >> we have another story for to you cover after the break. >> that's right, an air traffic controller on the phone with his girlfriend at this moment. take a look at this, when a plane crashed into that chopper. the f.a.a. says he's not to blame for the crash, but should he be, janine pir sticking anded for this one. >> you've heard of wine in a box, at least my mom has, now, wine in a plastic bottle? yes. >> that would make it taste funny, wouldn't it? >> guess what, mike, we are going to do a blind taste test, the newest trend. does it affect your vino's taste, test. >> and the wine master will be right back to talk about it. ♪ . that's a-- tiny netbook. yeah, it's-- good-looking, lightweight. generally awesome.

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>> all right. well, the investigation continues into this horrible mid air collision over the hudson river last weekend. an air traffic controller was allegedly on an unrelated phone call with his girlfriend when it happened and nine people died in this horrible crash that was caught on home video. could that air traffic controller be held liable for the crash? >> we are he' back with judge janine pirro to talk about it. that's the question should the pilot--

or should the f.a.a. be responsibility forp what happened in the crash. >> depends on the facts of the case. anyone would think there's concern when you hear someone should be alerting a plane, a helicopter is about to hit him on the phone on a personal call that has been described as flirtatious. the issue is not just that, what is their job? achtly, there was a conflict alert that went off in newark and teterboro, and both said they didn't hear it. maybe you didn't hear it, you were both on the phone having a conversation not relevant to this. >> and the supervisor out in the hallway, not in the room under the regulations, that's part of his job. >> i think they've got to recognize maybe there needs to be some kind of negligence charge here. nine people are dead. we have people in these-- working as contollers, as far as we're concerned, we think that they have our lifer and our best interest at heart. they're not working at wal-mart where they can step aside make a phone call and call their girlfriends. this is a life and death

situation, they have an obligation to be ever alert. >> and yet, janine, we have also heard that from 1100 feet and below the skies above new york are mostly self-regulated where they were flying. you're supposed to-- the pilots are suppose today look around and check out the skies. so, maybe the air traffic controller won't ultimately be responsible. >> you know, that's a good point and they are supposed to be able to look and see or whatever the terminology is. in addition to that, you've got to have the backup and at that point he was tuning into that frequency. anyone flying in this area gets it, when you're at a certain level you look to see if there's another craft near you, but you're plugged into that other line, other channel to find out if there is. >> the official flight rules. the f.a.a. did issue a statement about this. while we have no reason to believe at this time that these actions contributed to the accident, this kind of conduct is unacceptable and we have placed the employees on administrative leave. >> how can they possibly say that these actions had nothing to do with the accident?

i mean, it's not up to them, it's up to the federal transportation safety board, not up to the f.a.a. to cover their people. that's why we have separate agencies doing these investigations. >> are the charges negligence, what would it be? >> you know what, alisyn, depends on the facts. how reckless, how negligent. how much could have been avoided. is this something where it wasn't his fault or something where had he really been alert could have prevented it. two different hurdles here. >> let's show you the n.t.s.b. statement. seems like a lot of bureaucracy. >> the role that air traffic control might have played in this accident will be determined by the n.t.s.b., any opinions rendered at this time are speculative and premature. >> that's exactly the way the investigative agency should play it, the fact that our guy is on the phone had nothing to do with the crash, that's baloney. to come out and say that is incredible. we've got to wait for the facts, what are they and see if there's a lawsuit. >> and you know the guy i

worked with janine for years, and before we had the problem for juliet at your house, fantastic. but shockingly you served wine from a box. >> it was appalling. >> i was stunned. and disappointing, yeah, although actually, we have a lot of paper bags on the way out. >> i love the next story, we're going outside on the mall with our good story, friend, a new story, if your wine comes in plastic or glass or even cardboard. the new trend in wine when we come back. - ( rock music playing ) - ♪ oh! what do you say to a spin around the color wheel? - to paint with primer already mixed in? - ♪ yeah yeah yeah... - test samples instead of can commitments? - ♪ whoo!

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>> welcome back to "fox & friends," that my friends is a glass of wine. can you smell that already?

>> yes, i can. >> that's glassed wine, wine that comes right out of a glass. our good friend is here from wine library and as always, great to see you. how are you? >> the big question, the new trend in wine is putting wine inside of cardboard boxes, not the old stuff. >> not the franzia, but plastic bottles. >> plastic. >> will this effect the wine? we thought we'd break it down here. >> it seems to me it would have a plastic taste. >> it may, you know, there's a lot of people who love beer out of a glass bottle more than the plastic, or the tin cans. >> have you ever done it? >> never, i've nondone-- not done the plastic bottle. >> you want to get right into it. >> i do. >> and the flavor and the taste of glass and gary is going to-- >> this is plastic and we picked some value stuff, you know, it's barbecue season, this is australian wine for a

lot of people who want an alternative to yellow tail, this is the blue estate. it's a merlot. you know, hollywood killed merlot sales and i'm trying to bring it back. >> and-- a little charcoal on the nose, a current. >> current is a berry. >> i smell a little blackberry here, i smell a sense of humor. >> and as the gas bottle of wine, what sort of flavor, are you getting more flavor with a glass bottle. >> no, the flavor that i'm so used to because 99.9% of the wine i have is out of glass bottles. >> how about out of a box? that seems a little cheesy. >> how does it taste? >> i'm very passionate about box wine. >> no kidding? >> box wine is actually probably the best closure for wines in the world. >> what does it mean? >> you open a bottle of wine,

you have it two days max and it dies. >> this is the right packaging for wine, but because we're a bunch of snobs in america we can't get over ourselves, we think that bad wine is a boxed wine. >> i had an organic wine in a box, this thin. >> at the time troe bapack. >> in original tina, fantastic. >> australia and the u.k. market are consuming enormous amounts of wine and box wines. >> this is a bordeaux. >> this is a seven point wine from robert parker, out of a box and-- >> i'll give it a try out of the box, but plastic is what we're talking about. >> and david cole lovelies box wine so there are people who love it. >> and wine news today is can it taste okay out of a plastic bottle? >> now, this is a real treat. if you watch gary's show, wine library tv. he's drinking out of coardboard

or glass. first time ever he's going to try it out of plastic. >> a fox exclusive. >> i love watching you do it. >> ready. >> i need some room. >> step out of the way. >> he's a professional. >> is he going to blow or-- >> we don't know, that's the problem with gary, you never know he might explode. >> the first thing i'm really worried about is ac, there's not a lot going on in the nose so i'm worried about that. one more sniffy sniff. maybe a subtle, like an itsy b bitsy cherry component going on. let's give it a whirl. >> here we go, america. >> you know, there's almost like a cherry blow pop component on the mouth of this wine and it gets a little sour on the back end. it kinds of flips like a little casper the friendly ghost component because it's hollow in the mid pallet, so a little fruit, disappears, caspar. >> and then a finish, sour

cherry, i wouldn't mind paying $5. not bad. didn't change my life, but solid wine. >> there you go. bottle pop. >> a blow pop, and then there's gum. >> you can pre-order gary's book called "crush it", always great to see you. >> thanks so many. >> go jets. >> and looks good. >> and alisyn take it away. >> we love gary, thanks, guys. i've some breaking news to tell, but. there are two tropical storms churning in the atlantic. we have a storm watch in effect right now for the united states. the very latest developments at the top of the hour for you. and new video shows mother nature's fury 12 different wildfires burning right now in california. are firefighters getting the upper hand this morning? and then hillary clinton comparing nigeria's corrupt election to the 2000 election here in the united states.

>> our democracy is still evolving, we had all kinds of problems in some of our past elections as you might remember. in 2000, our presidential election came down to one state where the brother of the man running for president was the governor of the state. so, we have our problems, too. >> well, some this morning say that our secretary of state is continuing the president obama apology tour. we'll take a closer look. let's see what's going on outside. >> this is the advantage of plastic bottles of wine. >> go ahead, go ahead. >> oh. and you'll never have those breaking, be right back. >> clayton, happens to him all >> clayton, happens to him all the time. captioned by closed captioning services, inc. . but with the strength of zyrtec ® , the fastest, 24-hour allergy relief, i promise not to wait as long to go for our ride. with zyrtec ® i can love the air ™ . and albacore tuna, crab, salmon and ocean fish flavors.

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brita-- bette captioning by,onment closed captioning services, inc. >> good morning, sunday, august 16th, here is what is happening now, president obama asks for -- asked tough questions during the town hall meeting on health care. >> how in the world should a private corporation operation providing insurance compete? >> alisyn: how did the president answer that and can he still defend the public option? you report -- we report, you decide. >> secretary of state hillary clinton accused of placating our enemies after taking this shot at the u.s. >> our democracy is still evolving. we had all kinds of problems in some of our past elections, as you might remember. >> so, if the secretary of state -- is she continuing the obama

apology tour? we report, and you decide. >> clayton: did she? napoleon is she itchy? he was completely blind and a 90-year-old man could see and doctors baffled by this and so are we, the man joins us live, this hour, to talk to us on the best morning show on television. i can see that! >> alisyn: everybody, thanks for joining us. mike is in for dave briggs. >> wonderful to be here. >> alisyn: have you ever county the words you say in any given year. >> clayton: oh, man! >> no. >> alisyn: somebody has counted, what president obama has said, all of the words the president has said, and it is interesting see which words he favors most, which words he is omitting from his speeches and we'll tell you

what it reveals and one of them, one of the findings is that he is not speaking like a war time tht president, though he is. >> clayton: and frank lund is coming up, and hayes book and coming up in a little bit and the x-factor and you go through the relationship and break up with someone and how do you mend a broken heart, the author that book will be here on our "fresh start" series. >> and there are five phases and the first one is whiplash. how quickly should you get over a break-up, two days, two weeks, two years. >> clayton: if you watch sex in the city it is one day and i don't know if that is appropriate and the town hall meetings we are following for you, colorado, president obama there in -- invoking his grandmother's death as part of his new push talk about making a personal up turn, instead of attacking critics saying it is personal to me, the first time we have heard it from the president, take a listen.

>> president barack obama: i just lost my grandmother last year. i know what it is like to watch somebody you love who is aging deteriorate. and, have to struggle with that. so, the notion that somehow i ran for public office or members of congress are in the so they can go around pulling the plug on grandma. i mean, when you start making are gument li-- arguments like s dissnoons a sign i see all the time, obama lies, grandma dies and the end of life counseling, this is what chuck grassley of iowa had to say about that issue. the issue is, whether end of life provisions should be part of legislation, it is about controlling health care spending

and which also creates a government run health care program as the pelosi bill still does, doing so escalates concerns about the rationing of health care, and government-run plans in other -- since government run plans in other countries ration to control spending. >> alisyn: the end of life counseling has become controversial after sarah palin last week called them death panels and that really caught fire and it became something of a third rail issue, so much so that the senate finance committee dealing with its own bipartisan bill, strikes it from the bill and there will be no end of life counselling in that bill and mike, you spoke emotionally before, how you went through this with the mother of your children, your ex-wife, who recently died and all of us who have had loved ones have had end of life counseling and the president using the point he lost his grand ma, he, too has

been through it and some say it is not the purview of the government, the government shouldn't be involved. it should be between the patient and the doctor. >> isn't it voluntary. >> alisyn: in the bill it is voluntary and brings up the finances of this. i mean, i thought this is just standard, that your doctor told you about it but it turns out, that it is something that is paid for by medicare and would be paid for in the bill. >> clayton: one republican who put the provision into begin with, johnnie isaac zon and responding to sarah palin said it is nuts, saying it has anything to do with euthanasia and it is a choice and a student from the university of colorado threw a different question to the president bringing up remarks the president wanted fiery remarks from people in these town hall meeting and they have been nice and this it's least one student who stupid and had a serious, interesting question. listen to this gentleman. >> how in the world can a private corporation operation, providing insurance compete with

the entity that does not have to worry about making a profit, doesn't have to pay local property taxes... they do not -- not subject to local regulations. how can a company compete with that. >> president barack obama: i think there are ways that we can address those competitive issues and you are absolutely right if they are not entirely addressed, then that raises a set of legitimate problems. but, the only point i wanted to make was the notion that somehow somehow just by having a public option you have the entire private marketplace destroyed is just not borne out by the facts. >> alisyn: he didn't get into the specifics, though. he argued the point but didn't get in to the specifics and it is interesting because that college student, zach, asked a very specific thoughtful question, and he seemed to know a lot of the facts. but i don't know, perhaps, they are -- the diamond is then details but it doesn't sound

like it. >> clayton: what hillary clinton is doing and nigeria, provide context for this and nigeria's government is one of the most corrupt governments in the world. their elections have been marred by violence, over 50 people being killed during the election, and secretary of state hillary clinton speaking in -- to the government and comparing nigeria's elections with what went on here in the u.s., in the year 2000, in florida. and there is criticism this morning from -- listen to what she had to say. >> our democracy is still evolving. we had all kinds of problems in some of our past election as you might remember. in 2000, our presidential election came down to one state, where the brother of the man running for president was the governor of the state. so, we have our problems, too. >> she's saying jeb bush fixed the election of 2000, when george bush defeated al gore but

then, that was on the heels of the situation which she snapped at the student in congo. remember that? and that leads to an op-ed piece in the daily news, new york daily news, and michael goodwin and he says it -- is president obama writing her speeches or is she simply drinking obama kool-aid. >> alisyn: he said, sadly, her comments fit neatly with ther boss's a-- blame america approach to foreign policy and once he leaves our borders, obama exhibits a... in ways that suggest that we are in better than the rest of the world and are often the root of the problems. and it is is unconscionable to compare that with -- what happened in 2000 here with the corruption an deadly violence that went on in the most politically corrupt country then world and drawing the parallel is out of balance. >> clayton: and it comes on the

heels of what president owe obama sinned france and america has shown arrogance and when in turkey, he said we are still working through our darker periods in this country, and -- lastly, in central and latin america, he said, there are people here that need to see us as a force for good, at least not a force for ill. >> called the apology tour by some and we have to take a tour of the weather now, rick? severe weather? >> rick: you said it. two tropical storms and another tropical storm within the next few hours, the 11:00 advisory. and i think it will up grade it to be a tropical storm, and this kind of forms from a batch of cloudiness and disturbance we had yesterday across areas of south florida, and got its act together during the overnight hours and now we have a fourth tropical depression and pulling off toward the north-northwest. about 125 miles to the south of apalachiocola and storm warnings from the florida, down to the

swannee river area and looking at the threat of 3 to 5 foot storm surge and ten inches of rain and winds up to 50 miles per hour and the other two named storms we have, ana and this is bill. and ana really is having a hard time keeping itself together here, a lot of environmental factors going against is and not the case of bill, bill will strengthen and will become our first hurricane and first major hurricane of the season and i want to point out the fact, both storms, this is the track for ana continues to pull off towards the west-northwest and around day five it is out here in the gulf, somewhere and that potentially is of interest especially if it's not broken apart by these -- all of the islands we have here, in the caribbean and we also are watching the track of bill and might be a major hurricane here, maybe towards the eastern part of the country, we'll have it closely as we get there. guys. >> alisyn: thanks, rick and we'll tell you what is happening in your headlines at this hour. another developing story this

morning, more than 700 firefighters battling a dozen raging wildfires in california. governor arnold schwarzenegger urging people to listen to mandatory evacuation orders. the fire in the santa cruz mountains has black ended up to 8 square miles of land. and 25 firefighters have been hurt in various blazes and the extent of their injuries is not yet known at this hour, and another developing story, for you. two russian jets collide in russia, this is in an air show rehearsal and leaving at least one pilot dead and the video just an hour ago into our newsroom and the planes slammed into one another while flieng formati-- flying in formation and one of the jets slammed into nearby homes and we'll give you more information as we get it and there was a horribly tragic outcome, supposed to be a happy wedding in kuwait. 41 women and children killed when a fire tore through a

wedding tent. fire officials say the fire moved so fast the tent burned to the ground in just three minutes. and at least 76 others were hurt and authorities believe faulty wiring may to be blame. no men died in the fire because wedding parties are held separately in kuwait for men and women. another sign of progress, in iraq, iraqi security forces removed concrete blast walls from a major road. the road heads to a former sunni insurgent strong hold in baghdad, part of a plan to remove barriers from baghdad by next month to ease congestion and there were a number of recent attacks in iraq and the country's leaders are warning of more afax before national elections in january. those are your headlines. >> the american people looking for answers with the health care reform bill and we'll we be able to keep or doctors and health plan and a 72-year-old man, a store owner, takes matters into his own hands shooting four men

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>> alisyn: so many americans are confused about president obama's health care reform plan, there are questions over what they stand to lose if the plan goes forward and the president has been trying to answer some of those questions but are the answers fact or fiction, fox legal analyst peter johnson, jr. is here and i will remind everybody, health care is your specialty, of course -- >> one of them, and i mean, reading the bill and i'm picking it apart. >> alisyn: one of the things the president has been explicit about is if you like your health care you get to keep it. fact or fiction. >> i'll tell you what he said. >> president barack obama: under this reform we are proposing, if you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor. if you like your health care plan, you can keep your health care plan. >> peter is that true. >> this is the most radical revolutionary reform, restructuring of health care in

world history. and i don't believe that it is true. based on the law and -- that is now being looked at in washington. >> alisyn: why? what concerns you. >> the concerns are this: we are really, i think, moving towards a single payor system. moving towards a system by which the government runs all health care. and, under these various bills, the federal government will mandate how private insurance is run. so, under the bills that we are looking at right now, if you are in a big self-insured company you have a five-year grace period. but, after that five-year grace period, you are out of there. nu if you are not one of those self-insured companies, as long as your insurance stays the same, the deductible and co-pay and coverage is the same, then you can continue with it. but, as soon as it changes you are out of there and you have to go into a plan that the government says you of have to be in, in terms of the requirements, so the changing

requirement of all of these plans -- it changes the requirement of all of these plan and effectively over a four or five-year period, at least one study, the lewen group, which is and insurance funded group, says 100 million americans are going to be out of their private health care plans. now, are you going to have the choice of your own doctor any more? well, health savings account will go the way of the horse and buggy. because of low deductibles are going to be imposed and you will not be able to have the high deductibles any more and if you have medicare advantage, at 10.5 million seniors, do, you will not have medicare advantage under the plan and that is going to affect your choice of physicians and your doctors. so, when you talk about a single payor system in which the government decides what kind of health care you will get whether you get the same hospitals, whether you get the same physicians, is more than in question, the whole landscape is going to change. >> alisyn: though the president said he does not -- no longer

supports a single payor system and perhaps did on the campaign trail and says he doesn't and the government option would be only one option and it sound like you are saying that would not be realistic. >> we have to look at people's philosophies, and sentiments and what they've said in the past and what they believe and he was vociferous, strong about the fact that he believed that if he was designing a system, which he is, now, with congress, that it would be a single payor system. and, so i don't think it is a jump in terms of imagination to think creditably that that is what we are going to see, if this plan passes, in five or seven or nine years. so, in response to the president, i say most respectfully, say good-bye to your health plans, and say good-bye to your doctors as you now see them. i think he means well. but i think that the landscape is going to change tremendously. >> alisyn: thanks so much for coming on. >> clayton: thanks, hundreds of people claim they are getting unsolicited e-mails on health

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we have good advice how to get over your ex. >> thankfully. joining us a clinical psychologist and author of the book "your ex factor" overcome heart break and build a better life. nice to see you. >> thank you, good morning. >> clayton: we have some tips here that we put together, based on some tips that you put in your book. the -- mike pointed out earlier, i guess, stage one, everyone goes through it when they go through a break-up. the whiplash. what is this. >> the whiplash is a just -- you may know you will break up or the divorce is coming, but, that moment when it just -- the plany landped and it hit you that way >> alisyn: sorry to interrupt, how long does it take to get over the first blow? >> a lot of us, it takes... a couple of weeks, a month. but, hopefully, it doesn't take

a lifetime. you do come out of it. you are in shock. >> you feel like damaged goods when people walk out on you. how do you get over that? >> that is the x-factor and all of the old issues from the past feel like they are in the present and may be similar but that is part of the x-factor, separating the past from the present. and the -- >> clayton: and anger is next and you go through the stages, insecurity and damaged goods as mike is and then you go through anger and you have that and rage, suddenly and you want to get back at -- >> a i hate her! >> with rage and anger and revenge, underneath all of that is disappointment. and when you deal with your disappointment, you get past your anger. and you won't spend months or years or a lifetime resenting your ex. but you have to get over it. or you will never move on.

and people think they get over it and take it with them to their next romantic relationship, as adults, that defines a lot of our lives, what we do or don't do. >> alisyn: and that is where the awareness comes on, be aware if you are carrying it into the next relationship and be aware of what you did in your past relationships that might have led to this. >> yes. absolutely. and that is -- part of being past anger, the key is taking personal response ability and what is your role and do or not do and it is more than your partner, you own 50%. >> clayton: and you can create your own future and it is your choice to move on, that is number 5, optimism. tell us about this. >> exactly. part 0 -- what do you need to feel love? what makes you feel loved and that is creating your future and looking forward. and saying your ex is part of your past, not your present. >> alisyn: great stuff, sorry to

cut you off, people can read more in your book "the ex factor" and steven, we appreciate you coming on and getting over your exes and i will put the discussion on facebook and keith romer wrote in, bee gee's music and orange sod da. that is a cry for help if i ever heard one! >> are you seeing anybody. >> alisyn: i'm married... >> clayton: camera one, please. keeping an eye on mother nature now... florida is getting a tropical storm warning, more trouble brewing. and then coming up on the show, a chicago closed for business, another holiday for most city workers and only this time they are not getting paid, plus a tasty new contest to nature the next flavor for ben and jerry's, and ice cream contest on a global scale. we'll tell you who is apply -- a finalist from the united states of america.

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>> clayton: we have to get to the weather department now. >> alisyn: a lot is happening out there. >> rick: tropics, three storms we are watching and two are actual tropical storms, ana and bill and it will be getting much better organized the last couple of frames, right there and bricking a lot of rain and -- bringing a lot of rain and radar

picking it off the shores of tampa, heading towards apalache bay and 125 miles due south and, the northwest and will strengthen somewhere around maybe a 50 to 55 mile-an-hour storm by the time it makes landfall and tropical storm warning in effect from the border of alabama and florida, all the way down to the swan knee river and the en -- suwannee river and then inches of rain and a lot of areas will see 3 to 5 inches of rain and concerned about the flooding and the two named storms we have are ana and bill and ana is not holding together here well at all and will continue to be in favorable conditions for more strengthening, and bill, however, not the case, bill is getting very well organized here and probably is going to be the first major hurricane of the year and back to ana pulls out towards the west and in the here, the "l", area of low

pressure by the end of the week in parts of the gulf and potentially is a little bit concerning and probably will not restrengthen but if it doesn't have much interaction with the land like it is forecast to do it could become a much bigger deal for us and the forecast track for bill and this is potentially a major storm, could be affecting the eastern part of the country and models now taking it offshore and could be a problem for bermuda and models going back and forth over the last few days and can't rule out the impact, on this part of the country and three storms we are watching. >> alisyn: wow, are busy. thanks, and if you have been watching fox news channel for the past week you know there is a -- an exchange between a correspondent in the press room and the press secretary robert gibbs about the fact that hundreds of people had e-mails to tell them they've gotten unsolicited e-mails, from the white house, and they wonder why they are on a list, if they are on a list and what this list is, and we have an update for you

this morning, about all of this. >> clayton: the update is, we have offered to give the e-mails to the white house and the white house said, no, we don't need them and we have offered to turn them over and they said we don't need them and it is about where the names come from and we asked a judge earlier and she said, when she was walking over with us, she said i got an e-mail on health care from david axelrod and she was being truthful and couldn't believe it because she has never been on a list and never has given her name to organizing for america, and never asked for any updates on health care. and she said she didn't realize whether or not it was illegal. but, unethical, perhaps, and we don't know where they are coming from and she was one of the people on that e-mail chain. >> and she had no idea how i got on there, she said and i didn't solicit these e-mails from the white house and we had a quick discussion about it, about the legality and she said it is probably a little unethical. >> alisyn: she's not sure about the legality and the people who are getting the e-mails are

concerned because it comes on the heels of the white house asking people to send in in a e-mails they got from their friends, or from strangers, or from neighbors, that seemed fishy to them about health care reform. and so, did they compile a list after that, is it totally unrelated to that list? people are getting e-mails, have concerned this morning and another update for you, this morning, is that fox has filed a freedom of information request with the white house, to try to find out more information about just what is going on. >> clayton: and yesterday i asked our viewers on "fox & friends" if you received any of these e-mails and you never put your name on a list and never asked for any information from the white house and never have given your name to organizing for america, or otherwise, and e-mail, send us your e-mails an tell us if you received anything from white house and we'll gather them up and once again offer the white house, if they wanted to take a look at them. >> okay. >> alisyn: and i want to tell you what is happening at this hour, we begin with the developing story for you, the american man released from

prison, in myanmar is now in thailand undergoing medical tests and you see him arriving there. he arrived with senator jim webb, who negotiated his release and he suffered from diabetes and epilepsy and mental problems and he was convicted in myanmar and sentenced to serve 7 years behind bars, of hard labor, convicted of violating the terms of democracy there, and senator web he said this will serve to mend relations between myanmar and the u.s. >> the most important part of this i believe is it was a gesture from the government of myanmar, that we should be grateful for, and hopefully, build upon. >> alisyn: he is this first member of congress to visit myanmar in a decade. chicago closed for business? that's right. tomorrow is yet another holiday

for most city workers, only this time they will not get paid. this is an effort to save dough. city hall will be closed, libraries shut down and you can forget about garbage pickup as well. this is one of three shut down days, this year, which will save chicago more than $8 million. new york city's top cop, ray kelly saying charles augusto acted in self-defense when he killed two men who burst into his store demanding money and he tried to reason with them and one robber began to pistol-whip an employee, and the 72-year-old owner took matters into his own hands and with a 12-gauge shotgun. >> we didn't have any money. i told him, go away, i won't call the police and i won't do anything and they thought about that and that didn't work and they got more and more violent and hurt my guy worse. and i fired on them, that's all. i hurt a couple and i'm afraid, two of them are dead.

i feel lousy about that. >> alisyn: the blast hit all four men, killing two, as you heard and leaving two others critically injured. consider the tom cruise of india but the bollywood star did not get v.i.p. treatment at newark airport in new jersey, he was pulled aside an questioned for nearly two hours when his name came up on a computer alert lirs and immigration officials were required to follow procedures and hold him and he was allowed to leave after the indian embassy intervened. and no word on why his name popped up. check out this video. in a vacation of the friendly persuasion, hundreds of gi-joes parachuted from the sky and descended on kansas city and the 12 inch action figures braved the 42-story jump from the top of the hyatt regency hotel and all part of the international g.i. joe convention to celebrate the 45th anniversary of the toy.

those are your headlines. and let's go outside to mike and clayton! >> you have to get out here. [cheers and applause]. >> all those women from new jersey are having a good time in midtown manhattan, from ben and jerry, look whose here, jerry and who is your friend, peter lind. >> he's one of the flavor gurus, and a tie dye kind of guy and has a bunch of neat flavors and we have it global contest to promote the new flavor. >> clayton: at the end of the segment, stand by, because we have the finalist, the u.s. finalist, we'll announce that finalist, to the large competition you held. >> here on fox! >> and these are three actual reject from the contest. >> and what was it you came up with. >> from their suggestions, though, in person for some of them. >> and he has had a lot of rejects on his own, he doesn't need to the people for his own research.

>> clayton: one of the rejects. >> what is that. >> this is tuzo surprise and tuzo and coffee and pie crust... >> how that is a reject. >> flavors of licorice and ouzo is a greek booze. >> anise flavored. >> mike those that! >> all right, pretty good. >> hand me a spoon, stat! >> ouzo surprise and he rejected this one. by the way and it is actually delicious. >> and this one is even better. you know... >> i don't mind. >> what is next on the list here. >> coconut almond, a milk chocolate coconut ice cream with chock covered almonds. >> this is singapore. not a country.

>> cocoa coconut almond. >> and you guys are changing your jobs... >> jerry sdmooit i lo. >> i have -- a question from facebook, what do you think of this idea, and ice cream with fruit loops and nuts and want to call it congress. [laughter]. >> that is a -- it is hard to keep the fruit loops crispy. >> the nuts stay crisp no matter what. >> and alisyn is -- the last reject. >> heavenly chef, goat cheese ice cream and blueberries... >> does not sound appetizing. >> goat cheese and... >> one of the rejackets from france. -- rejects from france. >> now it is time, the moment

you have been waiting for, the big winner, to your big competition, nationwide the u.s. finalist is, and came up with the delicious flavor. tell us more. >> this is from con -- connie from wisconsin, a caramel ice cream with almonds and caramel swirl, doesn't have a flavor yet. >> we know it will be good. >> caramel, what -- >> caramel almond and caramel swirl. >> all right. so that is our challenge, somebody to come up with a name. >> caramel chameleon. >> congratulations to toni for coming up with that delicious idea and submitted the name for the delicious idea and this is part of the global flavor contest. >> we have had entries from 15 different countries, and we'll make a trip in the fall, to the dominican republic and visit the

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>> clayton: let's throw sound at you and listen to the president and talk about it. listen to the president. >> president barack obama: if you like your health care plan, you can keep your health care plan. health care reform... health care costs... we were losing 700,000 jobs per month joit while saving jobs... we're losing jobs half the rate we were at the beginning of the year... that is how we'll grow the economy again... stabilizing our economy... build our economy stronger than before. >> clayton: frank you heard the president there and looking at the words and we want to you analyze them and you are the authority of "words that work" and are his words working right now. >> you know, they are not working when his job approval rating plummeted basically, just about 50% and when he started, six months ago, it was more in the mid 60s, and on specific issues and falling. but i can't fault him for this. yes. we are in a war, in afghanistan. and we still have a challenge in

iraq. but the american people really do wanted to focus on the economy and are interested in health care. so, it is no surprise, these they're words he is most often using and i wanted to make one point, there are certain words that he is not using, and i don't know if you have a graphic but there are three words i would be recommending he really wants to connect to the american people, word number one, accountability. and the american people want to hear the president acknowledge that he is responsible, there you go. that he is responsible for the things that he is doing and the government will accept accountability and responsibility for the success and failure and the third word that you never hear from him is taxpayer. how much harder do we have to work to pay the taxes, those are the three words i would be recommending, this administration use, if it want to rebuild its popularity and credibility. >> alisyn: frank, this is interesting and also, interesting that you say it makes sense that he is not saying afghanistan and iraq. voters are not focused on that

now and may not wanted to hear it but, also jobs are a problem. the jobless number is up, unemployment is up, and why is he saying jobs so much? >> because, he is staying with -- saying what the american people want to hear but is missing it and all the research we have done for fox and other client, what people want more than jobs, is a career. -- i would be prepared to guess the three of you, you would rather have a career at fox than a job at fox. the way most americans feel. and so when obama talks about jobs, he is only talking about the 9:00 to 5:00, the less important stuff, what he is looking for -- or what the american people are looking for are careers. >> alisyn: good point, interesting. frank luntz, fox news analyst and also the author of "words", great to see you. >> alisyn: situation in florida is changing by the second and a tropical storm warning is in effect now, and rick reichmuth

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>> continuing to watch very active tropics, three storms we are watching, one of them the biggest, most immediate at least is this storm here, overnight became a fourth tropical depression of the year and probably by 11:00 will become claudette and out here, just to the west of tampa, to the south of apalachiocola and we are seeing heavy rain here associated with this and will continue to pull through the north and this afternoon, conditions will get much worse across the florida panhandle and by the overnight hours we'll see

the heaviest of the rain showers, and the strong winds and winds probably the range of 45 to 5 a miles per hour and we do have tropical storm warnings in effect, from the surrounding -- suwannee river area towards alabama/georgia border and pensacola and seeing the worst of this around panama city area and continue to watch it closely over the next few hours, alisyn. >> alisyn: thank you. >> a 90-year-old man was left legally blind after -- as a result of degenerative eye condition. but, after an unexplained dizzy spell, our next guest' eyesight suddenly returned like a miracle. >> alisyn: the medical miracle happened to martin alby and he joins us and how to explain how it could happen is a doctor, clinical associate professor of ophthalmology at nyu's medical center and gentlemen, thanks for being here and martin, let me start with you. last saturday, a around 2:00 a.m., you woke up feeling a little unstable.

you went to the hospital, and what happened? >> well, on the way to the -- to -- good morning. it is nice to see you! before we start i would like to make a statement to the general public. and to god, to thank my daughter who is my -- i would not be here if it was not for her taking care of me for the last several years. >> clayton: sweet. >> yeah. and she's in the hospital now and will be out in a couple of days. and god gave me my sight back and she had to go to emergency after that. >> tell us what happened to you, at 2:00 a.m. -- >> well, i was first -- >> on the way to the hospital. >> oh, well, on the way over, i had -- i asked a guy, i said i feel better now will you take me

back home and he said, no, we have to take you to the hospital. so when i got to the hospital, the nurse came in and i said, i feel very good now, i would like to go back home and she said, no, you have to see the doctor, sir. >> and you did see the doctor, literally saw the doctor, and doctor, how was it possible, he goes in there and all of a sudden after two years of blindness bam! cease the doctors and thursday nursings and everybody. >> shorted of a miracle, there is macular degeneration and sometimes blood can be in the back of the eye and sometimes it dislodges or moves out of position and people can get improvement in their vision. >> alisyn: you have seen it before. >> i have seen it in some patients where they have decreased vision for many months, sometimes years because of blood and macular degeneration and it goes away -- >> it really had something to do with the dizziness. >> i don't think so. i think the dizziness is coincident snoond now he is dizzy with excitement and do you

believe it is a miracle though in a way. >> oh, yes. i do but i want to finish my statement. i would like everybody to pray for my daughter. >> yes, we dill. >> and thank god for that and i want to -- also "all my children," grandchildren, and great grandchildren. >> is that the best part of seeing your children, what is the best part of sight again. >> everything! everything! unbelievable. when i look in the morning, when i get up and go to the bathroom, i look in the mirror and i say, hello, marte, nice to see you! >> nice to see you and the best to you and thanks for being with you. >> will be nice to see you! >> alisyn: thank you very much, doctor, thanks for coming onto tell us about this miracle! >> i have a question that cannot be answered, maybe you can hang

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